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Quiet,
American culture also likes to reward leaders who like to talk more.
(Cain 3) Obviously, America is a country that favors extroversion.
Susan Cain expressed in the book that the large companies prefer to
employ extroverted staff. The staff knows it is important to be an
extrovert. (48) Moreover, most American people have a wrong
understanding of introvert. (Kahnweiler 4) Introvert does not mean
that they are afraid of speaking or they are not able to take action,
they are just unwilling to be surrounded by people everyday.
(Kahnweiler
4)
Although
the
American
culture
admires
the
personality
group.
Some business
leaders
may be good
at
are:
openness
conscientiousness,
and
to
experience,
neuroticism-stability.
agreeableness,
(Gallagher
and
Blackstone 226) Introverted might not satisfy the first quality, but
they do seem to match the second and fifth qualities which are the
openness to experience and neuroticism-stability. Introvert are more
open and receptive to different ideas and experience (Cain 57)
When their followers propose new ideas, introverted leader tend to
listen and embrace their ideas. (Cain 57) Their openness to their
followers experience and ideas motivated them to work harder.
(Cain 57) Introverted leaders do not only satisfy the quality of
openness to experience, they also satisfy the quality of neuroticism.
Neuroticism-stability equals to emotional stability. (Gallagher and
Blackstone 228) Extroverts are easier to get excited than introvert.
(Cain 158) Extroverts are willing to take more risks because of their
excitements. (Cain 160) However, that is pretty dangerous for a
political leader to do that. (Gallagher and Blackstone 228) Different
that extroverts, introverts are more stable at their emotion because
their medial orbitofrontal cortex (an essential component of the
brains
dopamine-driven
reward
system)
is
smaller
that
the
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Works Cited
Bradley, John H., and Frederic J. Hebert. "The Effect of Personality Type on Team
Performance." Journal of Management Development: n. pag. Gale. Web. 7
Jan. 2016. This article contains information about personality of team leaders
which include a leader, and it also has information about how their
personalities will affect their performance. Since my research paper involve
with the personality and leader, I can learn more things about the influence
that people's personalities bring to their behaviour.
Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. New
York: Broadway Paperback, 2013. Print. The book "Quiet: the Power of
Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking", has quite a bit of information
about introverts which is part of my research topic. There are even some
examples in the books that might be helpful to me. By reading this book, I
believe I will have a better understanding of introverts, and thusly do a better
research.
Gartner, John D. "How to Choose a President." Psychology Today: n. pag. ProQuest.
Web.
20
Jan.
2016.
<http://search.proquest.com/docview/1752065826?
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sort=DA-
SORT&docType=Article&tabID=T002&prodId=GPS&searchId=R6&resultLi
stType=RESULT_LIST&searchType=BasicSearchForm&contentSegment=&c
urrentPosition=1&searchResultsType=SingleTab&inPS=true&userGroupNam
e=va_p_madeira_sc&docId=GALE%7CA347165454&contentSet=GALE
%7CA347165454>. This article tells me that introverts can be nurse leaders.
This articles provide me specific informations about how introverts become
nurse leaders. It contains useful information about introverted and a leader.
in the field of politic and business. Therefore, I can use this piece of
information to compare with the qualities of introvert and extrovert to see
which one of them is the better political leader.
Trait, Ruth. "The Attributes of Leadership." Leadership & Organisation Development
Journal:
n.
pag.
Gale.
Web.
Jan.
2016.
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sort=DASORT&docType=Article&tabID=T002&prodId=GPS&searchId=R10&result
ListType=RESULT_LIST&searchType=BasicSearchForm&contentSegment=
¤tPosition=14&searchResultsType=SingleTab&inPS=true&userGroup
Name=va_p_madeira_sc&docId=GALE%7CA18293137&contentSet=GALE
%7CA18293137>. This article contain information about the kinds of key
qualities of being a leader. It lists all the quality that a leader should have and
tells the reader why that a leader should have that certain kind of quality, so it
is really clear. I believe this article will be a big help for me